Blue Moon

Erté or Romain de Tirtoff. 

Reading about art and astrology... Some my favourite topics! As is coming a full moon in Aquarius, my favourite sign with Pisces and my rising sign + Moon sign + South Node... It was also my father's Sun sign. 

And the sign of change, revolution, detours, truth, humanitarianism, fight for equality, coming of the unexpected, justice, humanity ... But Aquarians are also loners, sometimes, more able to love "the people" as a whole than a single lonely soul in real everyday life... 

No Commitment and self sacrifice are Aquarians' motto. 

But, with this "Blue Moon", as it is called by some, on August 7th, it seems to be time to let go of that and integrate the elements of Aquarius' opposite, Leo, in which the Sun is currently travelling... 
Leo = sunlight, joy, living from the heart, fire energy, self love, success, putting yourself out there...

"We are all made of stars"

The Guardian's read of the day!
One of my favourite topics. Don't we all feel it that we belong to the whole.
The universe is oneness.
We are stardust!

This image shows M81 (bottom right) and M82 (upper left), a pair of nearby galaxies where “intergalactic transfer” may be happening. Gas ejected by supernova explosions in M82 can travel through space and eventually contribute to the growth of M81. Photograph: Fred Herrmann, 2014

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My favourite quote:

“In some sense we are extragalactic visitors or immigrants in what we think of as our galaxy.”

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We are all made of stars: half our bodies' atoms 'formed beyond the Milky Way'

Simulations reveal that up to half the material in our galaxy arrived from smaller galactic neighbours, as a result of powerful supernova explosions

link: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/27/we-are-all-made-of-stars-half-our-bodies-atoms-formed-beyond-the-milky-way

Nearly half of the atoms that make up our bodies may have formed beyond the Milky Way and travelled to the solar system on intergalactic winds driven by giant exploding stars, astronomers claim.

The dramatic conclusion emerges from computer simulations that reveal how galaxies grow over aeons by absorbing huge amounts of material that is blasted out of neighbouring galaxies when stars explode at the end of their lives.

Powerful supernova explosions can fling trillions of tonnes of atoms into space with such ferocity that they escape their home galaxy’s gravitational pull and fall towards larger neighbours in enormous clouds that travel at hundreds of kilometres per second.

Astronomers have long known that elements forged in stars can travel from one galaxy to another, but the latest research is the first to reveal that up to half of the material in the Milky Way and similar-sized galaxies can arrive from smaller galactic neighbours.

Much of the hydrogen and helium that falls into galaxies forms new stars, while heavier elements, themselves created in stars and dispersed in the violent detonations, become the raw material for building comets and asteroids, planets and life.

“Science is very useful for finding our place in the universe,” said Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, an astronomer at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. “In some sense we are extragalactic visitors or immigrants in what we think of as our galaxy.”

The researchers ran supercomputer simulations to watch what happened as galaxies evolved over billions of years. They noticed that as stars exploded in smaller galaxies, the blasts ejected clouds of elements that fell into neighbouring, larger galaxies. The Milky Way absorbs about one sun’s-worth of extragalactic material every year. 

“The surprising thing is that galactic winds contribute significantly more material than we thought,” said Anglés-Alcázar. “In terms of research in galaxy evolution, we’re very excited about these results. It’s a new mode of galaxy growth we’ve not considered before.” The simulations showed that elements carried on intergalactic winds could travel a million light years before settling in a new galaxy, according to a report in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, another astronomer on the team, said that before their simulations, galaxies were thought to grow primarily by absorbing material left over from the big bang. “What we did not anticipate, and what’s the big surprise, is that about half of the atoms that end up in Milky Way-like galaxies come from other galaxies,” he said. “It gives us a sense of how we can come from very far corners of the universe.”

The scientists used computer models that created detailed 3D models of galaxies that they could watch evolve in a dramatically speeded-up form from the moment they were born to the present day. The animations can show whether stars in a galaxy formed from material already in the galaxy, or from huge clouds of gas that fell in from neighbouring galaxies.

The simulations show that more powerful intergalactic winds flow from bigger galaxies, because there are home to more exploding stars, but also because the material has to be moving faster to escape the galaxy’s gravitational pull. Plenty of material does not reach a high enough speed and simply falls back into the galaxy where the supernova occurred.

“Our origins are much less local than we thought,” said Faucher-Giguère. “This study gives us a sense of how things around us are connected to distant objects in the sky.”

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And watch here:

Young Fathers VS Scottish National Portrait Gallery

This tells so much... in such a intense form and capture of time, space, voice.
Made me shiver. Could share it a million times.

Life, history, life after death and devastation. Reborn, we can be. And will be. Sons and daughters of  those whose lives were declared meaningless enough to be used as tools. We carry their sufferance in our DNA, in our unspoken sadness, eternal, permanent, through and along with the light and joy we feel much stronger, for them to feel it too... through us.

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Young Fathers | Scottish National Portrait Gallery | Van Dyck: A Masterpiece for Everyone

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Words by Tim Brinkhurst & Kayus Bankole, spoken by Alloysious Massaquoi...

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Published on 27 Jul 2017

Music & concept by Young Fathers.
Additional footage by G Hastings.
Words by Tim Brinkhurst & Kayus Bankole, spoken by Alloysious Massaquoi.
Produced by Black Barn Media Ltd

Looking Good: the Male Gaze from Van Dyck to Lucian Freud
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
24th June – 1st October 2017
Scottish National Portrait Gallery in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery

'By Your Side'

..."When you're on the outside baby and you can't get in
I will show you you're so much better than you know
When you're lost and you're alone and you can't get back again
I will find you darling and I will bring you home"...

Sade - 'By Your Side'

"By Your Side"

You think I'd leave your side baby
You know me better than that
You think I'd leave you down when you're down on your knees
I wouldn't do that
I'll tell you you're right when you want
Ha ah ah ah ah ah
And if only you could see into me

Oh, when you're cold
I'll be there
Hold you tight to me

When you're on the outside baby and you can't get in
I will show you you're so much better than you know
When you're lost and you're alone and you can't get back again
I will find you darling and I will bring you home

And if you want to cry
I am here to dry your eyes
And in no time
You'll be fine

You think I'd leave your side baby
You know me better than that
You think I'd leave you down when you're down on your knees
I wouldn't do that
I'll tell you you're right when you want
Ha ah ah ah ah ah
And if only you could see into me

Oh when you're cold
I'll be there
Hold you tight to me
Oh when you're low
I'll be there
By your side baby

Oh when you're cold
I'll be there
Hold you tight to me
Oh when you're low
I'll be there
By your side baby

'No Ordinary Love'

Sade - 'No Ordinary Love' 

(Live in 2011)

Lyrics:

I gave you all the love I got
I gave you more than I could give
I gave you love
I gave you all that I have inside
And you took my love
You took my love 
Didn't I tell you
What I believe
Did somebody say that
A love like that won't last
Didn't I give you
All that I've got to give baby 

I gave you all the love I got
I gave you more than I could give
I gave you love
I gave you all that I have inside
And you took my love
You took my love 

I keep crying
I keep trying for you
There's nothing like you and I baby 

This is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love
This is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love 

When you came my way
You brightened every day
With your sweet smile 

Didn't I tell you
What I believe
Did somebody say that
A love like that won't last
Didn't I give you
All that I've got to give baby 

This is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love
This is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love 

I keep crying
I keep trying for you
There's nothing like you and I baby 

This is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love
This is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love 

Keep trying for you
Keep crying for you
Keep flying for you
Keep flying I'm falling 

I'm falling 

Keep trying for you
Keep crying for you
Keep flying for you
Keep flying for you I'm falling
I'm falling

'Joy In Repetition'

What is lacking in our sad westernized world... Joy!!!
I'm in love right now.
Of course, on "repeat"!

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"Holding someone is truly believing there's joy in repetition."

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Keziah Jones - 'Joy In Repetition'

(Prince's cover)

Published on 7 Jul 2017

Keziah Jones "Joy In Repetition" - Prince Cover
Available now : http://smarturl.it/KeziahJonesJIR

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Original lyrics :) 

"Joy In Repetition"

He like to frequent this club down up on 36th
Pimps and thangs like 2 hang outside and cuss for kicks

Talking 2 no one in particular, they say "the baddest I am tonight"
4 letter words are seldom heard with such dignity and bite.
All the poets and the part time singers always hang inside
Live music from a band plays a song called "Soul Psychodelicide".
The song's a year long and had been playing 4 months when he
Walked into the place.

No one seemed to care, an introverted this-is-it look on most of their faces.
Up on the mic repeating 2 words, over and over again
Was this woman he had never noticed before he lost himself in the
Articulated manner in which she said them.
These 2 words, a little bit behind the beat.
I mean just enough 2 turn u on.
4 everytime she said the words another one of his doubts were gone.

Should he try 2 rap with her? Should he stand and stare?
No one else was watching her, she didn't seem 2 care.
So over and over, she said the words til he could take no more, (no more)
He dragged her from the stage and together they ran through the back door
In the alley over by the curb he said tell me what's your name
She only said the words again and it started to rain (rain, rain, rain)
2 words falling between the drops and the moans of his condition
Holding someone is truly believing there's joy in repetition.

There's joy in repetition.
There's joy in repetition.
There's joy in repetition.
There's joy in repetition.
She said love me, love me, what she say?
She say love me, love me.
Joy, why don't u love me baby, joy, why can't u love me baby
Joy, come on and love me baby, joy in repetition
Alright, joy in repetition,
Alright, joy in repetition,
Alright, joy in repetition,
Alright, joy, all my wishes add up to one
Love me, joy, Love me, joy, Love me, joy
Love me, Love me, joy, joy, joy in repetition
Joy, joy in repetition,
Joy, joy (love me) in repetition,
Love me, love, joy, joy, joy in repetition
Joy, and I'm gonna say it again, joy, joy, and I'm gonna say it again,
Joy, I'd like 2 go way up high and say, Love me, joy
I'll say Love me, joy
Joy, joy in repetition, joy in repetition
There's joy in repetition

Sade... The 'Soldier of Love'

GREATNESS!

Sade - 'Soldier of Love'

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Published on 13 Jan 2010

Sade's official music video for 'Soldier Of Love'.


More from Sade
By Your Side: https://youtu.be/C8QJmI_V3j4
The Sweetest Taboo: https://youtu.be/kcPc18SG6uA
No Ordinary Love: https://youtu.be/_WcWHZc8s2I

Follow Sade
Website: http://www.sade.com/gb/home/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sadeofficial
Twitter: http://twitter.com/sadeofficial

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Lyrics: 

"Soldier Of Love"

I've lost the use of my heart 
But I'm still alive 
Still looking for the light 
And the endless pool on the other side

 
It's the wild wild west 
I'm doing my best 
I'm at the borderline of my faith 
I'm at the hinterland of my devotion 
I'm in the front line of this battle of mine 
But i'm still alive 

I'm a soldier of love 
Every day and night 
I'm a soldier of love 
All the days of my life 

I've been torn up inside 
I've been left behind 
Tall I ride 
I have the will to survive 
In the wild, wild west 
Trying my hardest 
Doing my best to stay alive 

I am love's soldier 
I wait for the sound 

I know that love will come 
I know that love will come 

Turn it all around 

I am lost but i don't doubt 
Tall I ride 
I have the will to survive 
I n the wild, wild west 
Trying my hardest 
Doing my best to stay alive 

I am love's soldier 
I wait for the sound 

I know that love will come 
I know that love will come 

Turn it all around 

I'm a soldier of love 
I'm a soldier 
Still wait for love to come 
Turn it all around 
I'm a soldier of love 
I'm a soldier

"En dehors de la zone de confort" : Après la lecture

Quelques mots de lecteurs...


Ce livre est merveilleux, il reflète tellement bien toute cette mouvance... J'ai 43 ans, j'ai vu de nombreuses fois Massive, Portishead, Tricky, un énorme pan de ma vie. Je pense que je le relirai encore très souvent, quelle immersion!
 - Christophe P.


En lecture captivante sur les origines de la tendance musicale la plus innovante de ces 30 dernières années où comment la connexion entre une ville et ses habitants fabrique une culture propre en dehors de la zone de confort. Bristol a été désignée European Green Capital en 2015, on y parle 91 langues et la culture est très présente. Merci Papa Noël pour me permettre de découvrir comment Massive Attack, Banksy et Tricky ont été influencés par leur ville.
 - Jérémie M.


"Je terminé ce matin la lecture d'un bouquin sur un mec (Robert Del Naja) un groupe (Massive Attack) et une scène (Bristol : Banksy Tricky TopleyBird Portishead). Qui est absolument genial tant il recoupe avec intelligence et finesse les problématiques de la création artistique et de l'engagement politique motivé par le questionnement de l'histoire.  Ca s'appelle En dehors de la Zone de confort de Mélissa Chemam."
 - Véronique S.


"...Vraiment encore bravo pour ce livre épatant. J'ai appris une foultitude de choses !"
 - Samuel K.


"L'aventure Bristolienne revit au fil des pages avec en toile de fond l'omniprésence de 3D. Bravo pour ce travail rigoureux qui place toute la sphère de créativité qui gravite autour de Massive Attack dans l'histoire de l'art contemporaine. Et ce n'est pas fini..."
 - T. 

"L’essai musical de l’année s'appelle 'En dehors de la zone de confort'. Il s’agit là d’en encourager sa jeune auteur, Melissa Chemam, parce qu’elle représente "une enfant de Pierre Barouh", cette jeune génération de Français(es) qui partent à l’étranger pour découvrir de nouveaux horizons, en capter les énergies et revenir en France pour raconter ce qu’ils ont vu. Tout à coup, ils ont deux pôles pour magnétiser leur vie, ils marchent sur deux jambes, ils peuvent comparer les sensations de là-bas et d’ici, ils voient là-bas des choses que les locaux ne peuvent pas voir ici. En tombant à la FNAC sur l’essai de Melissa traitant des enfants prodiges de Bristol (Massive Attack, Portishead, Banksy), je croyais découvrir la traduction d’un livre anglais en français. Vu le sujet, c’était déjà inespéré. Mais non, Melissa Chemam était bien une des nôtres partie là-bas pour faire son enquête. Depuis, nous nous sommes rencontrés, et à chaque minute de notre conversation, la pertinence de son champ d’investigation me semblait un peu plus frappante. En réécoutant Massive Attack de 1991 à 2016, peut-être que la chose vous deviendra aussi obsédante que pour moi depuis un mois et la lecture de cet essai. Pas eu une telle épiphanie depuis "L’intuition Jorge Ben" à Recife en 2002, celle qui a provoqué l'aventure Oba Oba Oba avec Pierre. Et la boucle est bouclée."
 - Benjamin R.

Présentation :

Qu’ont en commun le Pont suspendu d’Isambart Brunel, l’acteur Cary Grant, le groupe Massive Attack, le plasticien Damian Hirst et l’artiste de rue Banksy ? Ils sont tous originaires de Bristol, une ville moyenne de l’ouest de l’Angleterre. Une ville marquée par une histoire riche et complexe, mais encore jamais racontée !

Marquée par une fortune précoce liée à l’ouverture de l’Angleterre vers l’Amérique, elle devient aussi un des points névralgiques du commerce triangulaire. C’est justement cette histoire qui va nourrir, de manière inédite et radicale, la génération d’artistes éclose à Bristol à partir de la fin des années 1970. Post-punk et reggae se rencontrent autour de groupes comme Black Roots, le Pop Group puis The Wild Bunch.

Tout prend forme lorsque qu’un jeune graffeur anglo-italien du nom de Robert Del Naja signe du pseudonyme de 3D sa première œuvre de rue sur un mur de la ville en 1983. Avant de fonder le groupe Massive Attack en 1988 avec les DJs Grantley Marshall et Andrew Vowles, il rencontrera sur sa route les pionniers du post-punk de Londres et Bristol, les passionnées de reggae antillais du quartier de Saint Pauls, puis la chanteuse Neneh Cherry et le rappeur Tricky. Creuset inattendu mêlant hip-hop, reggae, soul et guitares rebelles, le premier album de Massive Attack, Blue Lines, sort en 1991 et provoque une révolution dans la culture populaire britannique. Massive Attack devient l’incarnation du succès d’un métissage à la britannique, et parviendra à toujours se renouveler, tenter de nouvelles révolutions et durer au-delà de nombreux mouvements musicaux des années 1990 et 2000, telles la Brit Pop, l’electronica et le drum and bass.

Dans le sillage de cette créativité débridée mêlant musique, art et implication sociale profonde, naissent aussi les groupes Portishead et Roni Size, les mouvements nommés trip-hop et dubstep, et le génial Banksy, inspiré dès son plus jeune âge par les graffitis de Robert Del Naja. Depuis, la profondeur artistique de ces artistes et leur engagement n’ont fait que se renforcer, tout comme leur lien avec leur ville. Ce lien va devenir le tremplin qui les porte jusqu’à l’autre bout du monde, de l’Amérique à Gaza. Il pousse aussi très tôt Robert Del Naja à se mobiliser – contre la guerre d’Irak, pour les droits des Palestiniens ou plus récemment pour l’accueil des réfugiés jetés sur les routes européennes. Rébellion, art, musique, engagement, Bristol synthétise ainsi une autre histoire du Royaume-Uni. Une histoire qui amène au sommet des charts et sur le devant de la scène de parfaits autodidactes et la part plurielle et afro-antillaise de la culture britannique.

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Pour le commander:  https://www.amazon.fr/dehors-confort-massive-Attack-Bansky/dp/2843378095/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500886904&sr=1-1&keywords=chemam

From Giles Duley to PJ Harvey

Listening to this interview:

Sunday Morning with...

In 'Sunday Morning With...' on BBC Scotland:

After becoming disillusioned with the celebrity scene, Giles Duley turned his back on rock and fashion photography and turned his skill towards capturing the plight of those affected by war and poverty. However, while working in Afghanistan in 2011, Giles' life changed forever when he stood on a landmine. He lost both his lower legs and his left arm. He talks to Ricky about his life and his latest collection of refugee photographs, 'I Can Only Tell You What My Eyes See'.

Listen here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wn2zq


Ending on that choice of song:

PJ Harvey - 'A Place Called Home'

A song I love deeply from an album that is very special to me (Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea).

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Lyrics, as always:

"A Place Called Home"

One day
I know
We'll find
A place of hope
Just hold on to me
Just hold on to me
Walk tight
One line
You're wanted
This time
There's no-one to blame
Just hold on to me

And I'm right on time
And the birds keep singing
And you're right on line
And the bells keep ringing

 come on my love
And the battle is won
And the planes keep winging
And I'm right on time
And the girl keeps singing

I walk
I wade
Through full lands
And lonely
I stumble
I stumble
With you
I wait
To be born
Again
With love comes the day
Just hold on to me

Now is the time to follow through, to read the signs
Now the message is sent, let's bring it to it's final end

One-day-I-know-there'll-be-a-place-for-us.

Real woman's talk....

"I don’t need your company to feel saved"...

Bedouine - "Solitary Daughter"

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Lyrics:

with the conviction of the woman you made me i find blades of grass from the island you lent me i find on every floor, in every drawer though i’m not an island i’m a body of water jeweled in the evening - a solitary daughter if picked at by noon, by midnight i’m ruined leave me alone to the books & the radio snow leave me alone to the charcoal & the dancing shadow if each blade of grass was meant here for me split apart, sliced, and wedged in for me who’s going to treat it? i’m not going to need it leave me alone to the books & the radio snow leave me alone to the charcoal & dancing shadow i am a lake, don’t need to be watered i am an ocean, i don’t need to barter i play with the moon, my only friend it pushes it pulls me i don’t pay the rent i don’t need the walls to bury my grave i don’t need your company to feel saved i don’t need the sunlight, my curtains don’t draw i don’t need objects to keep or to pawn i don’t want your pity, concern, or your scorn i’m calm by my lonesome i feel right at home and when the wind blows, i get to dancing my fun is the rhythm of air when it’s prancing i play with the moon, my only friend… leave me alone to the books & the radio snow leave me alone to the charcoal & dancing shadow